Our approach
We offer multiple service streams, that can be individualised and tailored to a child’s needs, under one roof.
Early Supports and long day-care in a social group environment
Your child will develop important skills in a long day care program that bridges the expertise of early educators, allied health service providers, and research connections—all of whom specialise in early education and care, child development, and neurodiversity-affirming best-practice supports.
Our curriculum and educational supports incorporate each child’s learning goals and interests, supporting each child’s optimal learning and development in a peer group setting. We teach essential, functional skills in partnership with the child, their peer, and their educators through play and other daily routines. We also have a strong focus on supporting children’s positive social relationships. We facilitate forging connections, appropriately expressing themselves in social and peer situations, and understanding what others are expressing. We aim to support this development and maintenance of social connection and friendships within the natural mainstream classroom environment.
How do we know that the ESDM is helpful?
There’s a vast range of published scientific evidence illustrating the benefits of ESDM for children’s development. Studies have shown children improve their language and daily living skills in everyday settings.
For more information about the ESDM, please see our publications.
Programs tailored to each child through individualised, collaborative assessment and selected learning goals
We work with your family and your child’s education and care team to develop personalised learning goals for your child , which are then integrated in a fun, friendly, and motivating classroom context.
By completing a collaborative individualised assessment of areas of support need, we build on your child’s strengths and preferences, to form learning goals that are in line with their development, your priorities, and, if applicable, their NDIS goals.
Your Key Worker will meet with you each semester to assess your child’s skill growth and collaboratively establish a new set of goals. These will be based on your child’s developing interests, understanding and use of language and communication, health, safety and well-being, participation in learning experiences, and engagement with others.